Manuel A. PAZ-Y-MINO (b. 1961, Lima, Peru) is a former student of Human Medicine at the San Marcos National Major University (UNMSM, Lima, 1978-79). Then he changed of studies in order to gain both a Bachellor's (1990) and Licenciate's degree in Philosophy (1992) from the UNMSM. Also he has followed Master Studies in Education at the National University of Education (UNE, Lima, 2004-6) and has won an Erasmus Mundus Scholarship to follow Master�s Studies in Applied Ethics in both Linkoping University and Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (2008-9).
He was a member of a biblical church in his teens and after he became an agnostic and atheist in his youth. As a non-believer he was very interested in Secular Humanism and Skeptical criticism of the pseudoscientific, paranormal and supernatural claims. He worked as an ad-honorem teaching assistant at the UNMSM�s Department of Philosophy (1989-90). Later he was teacher under contract of philosophical introductory courses (1990-96) at the same UNMSM, then of philosophical and/or logical introductory courses in Enrique Guzman y Valle National University of Education (1995), Cesar Vallejo University (1998), Federico Villarreal National University (2000), Pedagogical San Marcos Higher Education Institute (2000), Peruvian Wings University (2005), and Ricardo Palma University (2006-2008).
Lic. Paz-y-Mino was President (1995-2007) of the Peruvian Journal of Applied Philosophy Publishing Association (AERPFA) an organization member of the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU), and he is Director (1998-today) of the Peruvian Committee for the Investigation of Paranormal, Pseudocientific and Irrational Claims (CIPSI-PERU), a founding member (1998-2002) of the Peruvian Non-Religious Movement (MPHA), founding Director (2002-2007) of the Peruvian Non-Religious Humanist Movement (MPHA), founding Director (2007-today) of the Peruvian Humanists and Rationalists in Peru (HURA-PERU), Executive Director of the Center for Inquiry-Peru (CFI-Peru) and a member of the Peruvian Philosophical Webring (RFP). He was a member of the Peruvian Association of Bioethics (ASPEBIO), Student-Pugwash, and Atheists of Florida.
Also he is founding Editor of the following periodicals: Peruvian Journal of Applied Philosophy (RPFA), Latin American Journal of Applied Philosophy (RLFA), Eupraxophia, Neo-Skepsis, he was a member of the editorial board of both Mexican Ethical-Rationalist Association�s magazine Razonamientos (Thinkings) and Argentinian Humanist-Ethical Association´s magazine El Desorden (Disorder), and he is a member of the editorial board of Pensar. Revista Latinoamericana para la Ciencia y la Raz�n (Thinking. Latin American Magazine for Reason & Science).
He
has published several philosophical papers and has lectured in national
and international meetings. He is author of the following
books:
-Authoritarism
& Humanism According to Erich Fromm
-Does
God not Exist?
-How to Enjoy Better Sex, Love and Marriage
-LOGOS: The Great Questions of Man. An Introduction to Philosophy.
-ETHOS: Let´s Live Better! An Introduction to Life�s Problems.
Also Lic. Paz y Mino has translated from English into Spanish the following books:
-by
Prof. Finngeir Hiorth:
Introduction
to Atheism
Introduction
to Humanism
Ethics
for atheists
Values
Studying
Religion
Big
Bang or no Bang? Science, Religion & Philosophy
-by Prof. Paul Kurtz:
The
Forbidden Fruit
-by
Prof. Andrew Lugg:
Absurd
& Quackery. Essays on Pseudo-science & Rationalism
He has participated in artistic expositions and contests as a photographer, video-maker and fiction-writer amateur. He is making a video series since a philosophical perspective.
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